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Police Thursday fired bullets and teargas at Barbie Kyagulanyi, the wife of National Unity Platform president Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine. Barbie and NUP MPs had gone to Nakaseke hospital to deliver relief items to teenage mothers. Barbie has been delivering Mama kits to pregnant mothers. This time she visited Nakaseke hospital where police intercepted…
The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has urged military to emulate fallen Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) Lt. Gen. Pecos Kutesa. “We send our condolences to their families to the forces and to the country.These two officers represent two worlds,”Hon Ssemujju said. Lt. Gen. Pecos Kutesa is one of the few young educated Ugandans that…
President Yoweri Museveni has appointed former Ethics and Integrity Minister, Hon Fr. Simon Lokodo as a commissioner for Uganda Human Rights Commission. UHRC remained incomplete after the death of former chair person Med Kaggwa. He collapsed in his car, moments after leaving his home in Mulago, on the outskirts of Kampala. He was moments later…
Over the weekend, we began a fourth week since Mr. Museveni relaxed lockdown measures. Life in the country has returned to normal. Even sectors that were supposed to remain closed according to President Yoweri Museveni, have slowly re-opened themselves. The only bars that were not operating this weekend, are the ones with no customers. While…
The minister of Foreign Affairs Gen Abubakar Jeje Odongo has shed more light on the plans to secure and evacuate Ugandans still trapped in Afghanistan after the takeover by the Taliban militants. The minister broke the silence after queries by sections of Ugandans on why the Ugandan government was prioritizing hosting Afghani refugees instead of…
The Ugandan Foreign Affairs Gen Jeje Odongo has hinted that they are having issues with Ugandans who left the country under the pretext of being gay but now requesting the government to send their wives and children. Gen Odongo while appearing on NBS TV’s frontline show revealed that a number of Ugandans who have left…
Members of Parliament have tasked the Uganda Business and Technical Examinations Board (UBTEB) to ensure equal distribution of technical institutes around the country. Busia Municipality MP, Hon Godfrey Macho questioned why majority of oil and gas technical institutes are in Western Uganda. “The Board should advise the Ministry of Education to spread oil and gas…
President Yoweri Museveni has in his other capacity as chairman of the ruling National Resistance Movement called a meeting of the party Parliamentary Caucus to discuss the implementation of the Parish Development model for Financial Year 2021/22 The meeting scheduled to take place on Friday August 20, 2021 at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds shall look at…
The Minister of Foreign Affairs Gen. Jeje Odongo has explained that discussions are going on between Uganda, Turkey and Interpol regarding the fate of Ugandan blogger Fred Kajubi Lumbuye who was arrested two weeks ago. Appearing before Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday, Gen. Odongo said that the situation and position regarding his status is…
The High court in Kampala has dismissed the election petition against Kawempe North MP, Muhammad Ssegirinya after the petitioner’s lawyers confirmed that they had not served Ssegirinya with the petition as he was in Kitalya Prison where he had been remanded. This comes after Electoral Commission (EC) had on Wednesday asked the court to dismiss…
